May 6, 2020
The Draft EIA 2020 notification and everything that is wrong with it
While the citizens are in the middle of dealing with a pandemic, the environment ministry has sought public comments on the draft notification, within 60 days from the date of issue. This has drawn heavy backlash
Debayan Gupta
April 15, 2020
The criminality of fly ash management
On April 10, the dyke of a fly ash pond of Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Singrauli collapsed. Such incidents are the consequence of what the data on fly ash utilisation has been showing all along. The management of fly ash, which is the by-product of burning coal to produce energy, has been a regulatory failure